Biafra: Protesters storm British High Commission, insist UK must produce Kanu to face trial in Nigeria

Biafra: Protesters storm British High Commission, insist UK must produce Kanu to face trial in Nigeria

Today’s downpour in Abuja, couldn’t deter protesters
numbering over 1,000 stormed the Bristish High Commission to demand the
extradition of Nnamdu Kanu of the Indigenous People of Biafra back to Nigeria
to face charges.

The protesters expressed disappointment with the
British Government that despite the overwhelming evidence that Kanu is
currently hiding in the UK, the embassy is feigning ignorance the it does not
know about his whereabouts.

Advocates of Social Justice For All (ASJA), who championed the protest said its
stance was informed by the knowledge that the UK was instrumental to the escape
of the IPOB leader only for it to turn around to ask Nigerian authorities for
clarification on the state and status of Kanu.

Addressing newsmen during the well-attended
protest, Patriot Venatius Asongo, Executive Director of ASJA wondered why the
United Kingdom had no qualms with its citizen peddling hate speech and
directing IPoB members that allegedly bombed innocent citizens in Delta state,
burnt a police station and killed a policeman in Abia state, attacked troops on
official assignment, raped women, extorted traders, robbed and commited other
atrocities against humanity.

Asongo said that at no time did the UK, through its High Commission call Kanu
to order while he was spewing crude and derogatory statements about Nigeria.

He said, “It is most Satanic of the UK to
continue according Kanu celebrity treatment when it cannot condone its own
equivalent of IPOB. National Action, NS131 and Scottish Dawn are proscribed as
extremist groups in the UK even when they have committed a tenth of the
atrocities IPOB has unleashed on helpless Nigerians. There was a clampdown on
members of National Action, NS131 and Scottish Dawn but no country has
interfered in the UK’s internal affairs and freedom to run its own business.
Yet, we are not allowed to promptly address a growing terror group among us
when extremist groups are getting the sledgehammer treatment in London.

“We find this not only irresponsible but also an
attempt to precipitate crisis in Nigeria and catalyst IPOB into something as
ferocious as ISIS, which the UK was instrumental to creating and strengthening
through its support for supporting terrorists against a country’s government as
it did in Syria. In our view, this calls for concern because it implies that
the UK is desirous of plunging Nigeria into crisis so that it can again return
as a colonial master.

“In the most shameful exposure of its duplicity
yet, the United Kingdom that is sponsoring IPOB separatist terrorists against
Nigeria had no words for the harsh riot police clampdown Catalonians in a bid
to prevent them from holding a referendum that the government had declared
illegal. As opposed to Nigeria’s military, which observed rules of engagement
in countering IPoB terrorists, in Spain the world was confronted with images of
excessive use of force, brutalization that left 888 people injured in just one
day. The United Kingdom was apparently blinded to this as it found nothing
condemnable there since it cannot occupy Spain as a colony; Nigeria is fair
game that the UK wants to conquer through Kanu.”

The group insisted that the High Commission of the United Kingdom to
immediately hands over Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra over now
to face charges leveled against him.

“As we make this demand, may we also specify that
the High Commission returns the fugitive terrorist alive; its request for a
status update on Kanu flags its potential to kill or maim him for any possible
set of objectives,” Asongo added on behalf of the group.